WYOH
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Progressive talk (weekdays) Tropical music (weekends) | |
Affiliations | Compass Media Networks USA News |
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Ownership | |
Owner | Sagittarius Communications, LLC |
WHTX | |
History | |
First air date | November 1, 1963 | (as WNIO)
Former call signs | WNIO (1963–1990) WNRB (1990–1994) WFNE (1994–1995) WNIO (1995–1999) WRTK (1999–2010) WYCL (2010–2018) DWYCL (2018) WYCL (2018–2022) |
Call sign meaning | W Youngstown, OHio |
Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
Facility ID | 73308 |
Class | D |
Power | 500 watts day |
Transmitter coordinates | 41°7′56.00″N 80°45′40.00″W / 41.1322222°N 80.7611111°W |
Links | |
Public license information | |
Webcast | Listen Live |
Website | talk977 bakanradio |
WYOH (1540
History
The station went on the air as the original home of WNIO, which is where the call letters were derived from, the city of license of Niles, Ohio. The station was first owned by "The Niles Broadcasting Company," headed by Frank Bevilacqua, his son Robert Bevilacqua and Stephen Conti[2] and operated out of studios at their transmitter site in Mineral Ridge, Ohio.
WNIO signed on as a
WNIO would be the prominent country music voice in the Mahoning Valley region until the late 1980s, when FM stations like
The station became WNRB on May 5, 1990, in a simulcast of
WNIO and WNCD would eventually be purchased by
Clear Channel decided to move WNIO's adult standards format to the Gocom-owned 1390
WRTK and WPAO were purchased by Dale Edwards' D&E Broadcasting - owner of
In March 2004, D&E Broadcasting filed an application with the FCC that would have allowed for WRTK to relocate to
On January 2009, WRTK became "Freq 1540," playing contemporary Christian, southern gospel, and many other like genres. The "Freq" nickname was borrowed from then-sister station WEXC, and its slogan, "Reaching The Kingdom," became a backronym for the station's callsign. After Harold Glunt died in January 2010, all of his stations were put up for sale, including WRTK. Consequently, WRTK dropped the CCM format in favor of a daytime-only simulcast of Fox Sports affiliate WANR.
On Friday, August 13, 2010, WRTK and WANR were sold to Whiplash Radio LLC of Ohio. The company is headed by radio veteran Chris Lash, who has owned, built and operated stations in Pennsylvania, Florida, Tennessee and Ohio. WRTK's abandoned studio/transmitter facility was since heavily remodeled and cleaned up,[14] and now houses both stations. WRTK officially split from its simulcast of WANR on September 1, 2010, in favor of a classic country format, dubbed "1540 The Farm." The new classic country format was also a throwback to WNIO's stint as a country outlet throughout the 1970s and 1980s.
Weekday programming included a morning show hosted by Burton Lee starting at the station's sign-on at dawn, and a one-hour version of "Country Gold With Rowdy Yates" at noon. Syndicated weekend programs included
On June 6, citing health concerns, owner Chris Lash leased out operating control of WYCL to Skylar Cato Broadcasting, managed by Philip Cato, who changed WYCL's format to locally produced talk radio. Louie b. Free moved his talk show from WGFT over to WYCL, where he had a succession of different airtimes during Skylar Cato management, and continued to broadcast on WYCL until late 2012.
The lease was canceled that November 25 and subsequently turned over to WHTX operator JL Communications, LLC (managed by Jim Davison and Laurel Taylor) who temporarily flipped the station to a partial simulcast of WHTX before relaunching the talk format as "Valley Talk 1540 WYCL" in January 2012. Some of the talk hosts on WYCL included a simulcast of WHTX morning host Gary Rhamy, Louie B. Free in the late morning/early afternoons, Frank Bellamy in the late afternoons, Don Hanni III on Saturday afternoons (and early evenings in spring and summer months) and syndicated programs hosted by Jim Blasingame and Maureen Anderson.
The talk format would end that April, reverting to a total simulcast of WHTX again as "The Fabulous 1570/1540" (with Louie's show airing on both stations) before finally returning to classic country, once again as "1540 The Farm," on June 18, 2012.
Sagittarius Communications, LLC, took over WYCL and WHTX on October 1, 2012, via a local marketing agreement with a lease-to-purchase option from Whiplash Radio, LLC. That November 1, WYCL flipped from classic country over to a tropical Spanish format branded as "La Nueva Mia 1540."
Sagittarius' lease-to-purchase option with WYCL and WHTX initially failed to close, and another local marketing agreement was established in May 2013 by WHTX and WYCL's engineer, Ben Slagle (who subsequently assumed like duties for
Whiplash Radio of Ohio, LLC, took WYCL dark on October 1, 2013, after the voluntary cancellation of Slagle's local marketing agreement due to non-payment, in addition to a number of unresolved technical issues at the stations' transmitter site. Following a court settlement in late October 2013 between Sagittarius and Whiplash Radio, WHTX and WYCL were returned to Sagittarius. While WYCL remained silent, it resumed operations on December 15, 2013, once again carrying a tropical Spanish format as "La Nueva Mia 1540."
In March 2017, WYCL updated its branding and on-air presentation to "Youngstown's Cool WYCL 1540 AM" carrying a greatest hits of the 1980s format in addition to dropping the tropical Spanish format.
On November 20, 2017, WYCL changed formats again to
.Station owner Whiplash Radio surrendered the licenses to both WHTX and WYCL on February 14, 2018, and sent the FCC a request to delete both licenses, effective immediately.[15] While initially granting this request (the call letters would be formally reassigned as DWYCL), both licenses and callsigns were restored by the FCC on May 4, 2018, and the assignment application for consent to assign the licenses to Sagittarius Communications was concurrently reinstated.[16] After the order from the FCC, the licence for the station was given to Michael Thompson, Receiver until the sale to Sagittarius Communication is complete.[17]
On January 28, 2019, WYCL relaunched as "NewsTalk 1540 WYCL", carrying programming from
On April 9, 2018, the station sale was consummated and ownership was transferred to Sagittarius Communications, LLC.
Sometime in August 2019, WYCL due to technical issues, filed with the FCC a silent STA, until repairs could be made. The FCC granted the STA. A short time later, News Talk 1540 WYCL resumed operations with its current News Talk format.
On April 30, 2021 WYCL dropped the News Talk format for locally programmed Oldies. The station was branded "Cool 1540".
On Monday July 18, 2022, WYCL changed formats again back to News Talk featuring shows from FOX Radio Network, Salem Media and others. Weekend programming features all Spanish Music. The station changed its call sign to WYOH on September 5, 2022.
Notable alumni
- CITY-TV in Toronto, who started in broadcasting as a newscaster for WNIO in 1969.
Previous logo
(WYOH's logo under previous talk format)
References
- ^ "Facility Technical Data for WYOH". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on October 8, 2010. Retrieved January 6, 2011.
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- ^ "Northeast Ohio Airchecks: Rockin' the Steel City". December 2, 2010.
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on October 8, 2010. Retrieved January 6, 2011.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ http://www.davidgleason.com/Archive%20BC-YB/1990/B-Radio-NE-Terr-BC-YB-1990.pdf [dead link]
- ^ http://www.davidgleason.com/Archive%20BC-YB/1992/Radio-NE-Ter-BC-YB-1992-B&W.pdf [dead link]
- ^ "WYOH Call Sign History". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
- ^ http://digital.maag.ysu.edu/jspui/bitstream/1989/6751/1/10-25-94.pdf [dead link]
- ^ "EssayMin - 英国论文代写知名品牌✔️高质量代写论文定制平台✔️".
- ^ http://www.fcc.gov/mb/policy/docs/fc00427a.pdf Station Data; Youngstown - Warren, OH Market; (Home Market Stations and All Other Stations with a Listening Share)
- ^ http://www.bostonradio.org/nerw/nerw-010404.html Archived 2010-06-20 at the Wayback Machine North East RadioWatch: April 4, 2001, Take Me Out to the Ban Game by Scott Fybush
- ^ http://www.fybush.com/NERW/2004/040322/nerw.html North East RadioWatch: March 22, 2004, Vox Sells 10 More to Nassau by Scott Fybush
- ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQQlQVwpSGk "Radio Walking Tour.wmv." Posted on September 05, 2010.
- ^ Lash, Chris (February 14, 2018). "WYCL license surrender letter" (PDF). CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. Retrieved February 25, 2018.
- ^ License document fcc.gov [dead link]
- ^ "WHTX - AM Station Profile - FCC Public Inspection Files".
- ^ "TalkMahoningValley.com Daily Lineup". talkmahoningvalley.com.
External links
- WYOH in the FCC AM station database
- WYOH in Nielsen Audio's AM station database
- FCC History Cards for WNIO (WYOH)